AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA

The Professor as Pitchman

Should faculty members reveal uncomfortable truths to prospective parents, or should we just try to make the sale?

By THOMAS H. BENTON

Seated on a stage, waiting to give a presentation on "How I Teach" for my college's admissions office, I thought about a scene from the film version of Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry, starring Burt Lancaster as a salesman...

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